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Trial reportThe American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association

Effectiveness of a physical activity intervention for Head Start preschoolers: a randomized intervention study.

Laura L Bellows, Patricia L Davies, Jennifer Anderson, Catherine Kennedy

Registry-linked trialAbstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04672681 (Rehabilitation Including Structured Active Play for Preschoolers With Cancer.), which is not on this map. Cited by 67 papers, 22 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT04672681 naactive not recruitingnot on this map

Rehabilitation Including Structured Active Play for Preschoolers With Cancer.

TypeinterventionalSponsorRigshospitalet, DenmarkRan2021 to 2026Enrolled84ConditionsPediatric CancerArmsPlay-based physical activity intervention
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed, 22 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 2 to 4 years old.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025
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  7. Play Badminton Forever: A Systematic Review of Health Benefits.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  9. Interventions that prevent or reduce obesity in children from birth to five years of age: A systematic review.Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community · 2021
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  13. Interventions for preventing obesity in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019
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  15. Social marketing approaches to nutrition and physical activity interventions in early care and education centres: a systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2017
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7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Laura L BellowsDepartment of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1571, USA. laura.bellows@colostate.edu
Patricia L Davies
Jennifer Anderson
Catherine Kennedy

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThe level of children's motor skill proficiency may be an important determinant of their physical activity behaviors. This study assessed the efficacy of an intervention on gross motor skill performance, physical activity, and weight status of preschoolers.

methodThe Food Friends: Get Movin' With Mighty Moves(®) program was conducted in four Head Start centers. Measurements included the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, pedometer counts, and body mass index (BMI) z scores.

resultsThe intervention led to significant changes in gross motor skills in the treatment group (n = 98) compared with the control group (n = 103) and was a strong predictor of overall gross motor performance (gross motor quotient), locomotor, stability, and object manipulation skills. No intervention effect was found for physical activity levels or weight status.

conclusionThe intervention dose was adequate for enhancing gross motor skill performance but not for increasing physical activity levels or reducing BMI.

Indexed as

Early Intervention, EducationalMotor SkillsBody Mass IndexBody WeightChild, PreschoolHealth PromotionHumansMotor ActivityMultivariate AnalysisObesity

Identifiers

PMID23245780
PMCPMC3722665

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